Psychiatry is a medical specialty devoted to the treatment, study and prevention of mental disorders. While the medical specialty of psychiatry utilizes research in the field of neuroscience, psychology, medicine, biology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, it has generally been considered a middle ground between neurology and psychology.

Those who practice psychiatry are different from most other mental health professionals and physicians in that they must be familiar with both the social and biological sciences. The discipline is interested in the operations of different organs and body systems as classified by the patient's subjective experiences and the objective physiology of the patient. Psychiatry exists to treat mental disorders, which are conventionally divided into three very general categories: mental illness, severe learning disability, and personality disorder.

Psychiatry and Chester County Hospital

For more information about psychiatrists on the Medical Staff at Chester County Hospital, call our Physician Referral Service at 800-789-PENN (7366) or visit the Find a Doctor section of our website.